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One dead and multiple people injured after 'masked gunmen' open fire at a Chick-fil-A - New Jersey
UK Mail ^ | 11 April 2026 | JENSEN BIRD

Posted on 04/12/2026 5:00:39 AM PDT by dennisw

One person has been killed and multiple people injured during a mass shooting at a New Jersey Chick-fil-A.

The horror unfolded at the restaurant in Union Township on Saturday night, sending terrified patrons scrambling and the business into lockdown.

At least six people were shot after gunfire erupted at around 8.40pm inside the crowded establishment, according to RLS Media.

A local living a block away told the Daily Mail that they could hear 'a ruckus' as well as sirens blaring hours after the shooting ended.

The father of a Chick-fil-A worker said his son told him multiple armed suspects in masks burst into the fast food chain.

The anonymous father described the busy eatery as a 'warzone' and said several of his son's co-workers had been injured.

Another man whose girlfriend works at the restaurant told CBS that the group of suspects barged in and went directly behind the counter, firing multiple shots.

A Lyft driver told ABC that he was finishing a drop-off near the Chick-fil-A when he heard more than seven shots fired.

'I finished my trip over there, in the return zone. I heard the shots. When I finished the trip, I go to Chick-fil-A to buy two burgers - I see the police, I heard the shots very close,' he said.

The Chick-fil-A is located at 2139 US 22 in Union, New Jersey. The town is located just over 15 miles outside of New York City.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Food
KEYWORDS: banglist; chickfila; crime; newjersey
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To: Pontiac
Or Chick-fil-A was chosen for this attack because of its Christian association.

That was my first thought as well.

41 posted on 04/12/2026 7:36:20 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Rt. 22 west of Somerville is like a different world. The stretch through Somerset and Hunterdon Counties are actually nice and then as you get closer to Phillipsburg it gets crappy again.


42 posted on 04/12/2026 7:41:09 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: libertylover

Here’s what happens if you don’t sell Halal.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6qerFH8wtjM


43 posted on 04/12/2026 7:41:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: dennisw
This will hurt Chick-fil-A squeaky clean image.

A ridiculous statement.
44 posted on 04/12/2026 7:47:02 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 17th Miss Regt

” you are a pattern recognitionist!”

And Trained Noticer like Barney Fife.


45 posted on 04/12/2026 7:47:23 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Brits love to bash anything in America, always have bad news their reporters are even worse than ours and they’re terrible.


46 posted on 04/12/2026 7:52:10 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I did, too.


47 posted on 04/12/2026 7:54:01 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: dennisw

How does this hurt Chick-fil-A’s image? Or do you just wish it would?


48 posted on 04/12/2026 7:58:48 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Eleutheria5
The $5,500 Fast Food Feast President Trump Served the Clemson Tigers
https://youtu.be/fmUaKg-K-TI?si=Ss8ZsHbH_vSicgog

Now, I head to McDonald's as their lunch menu is being served and I get a Quarter Ponder w/Cheese, Fries and a Chocolate Shake. (If the machine is working! LOL! ;)

49 posted on 04/12/2026 7:59:43 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the Change You Filthy Animal !)
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To: usafa92

I’m so old I remember the Newark Philip Roth described, when the Weequahic High area was heavily Jewish, and the Roth nerds lusted after the Hillside cheerleaders. Although, by the I got to HS the whites were moving out and the black area was expanding over Lyons Avenue. The 60s.


50 posted on 04/12/2026 8:08:14 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dennisw

Really?
Chic fil A will be fine.
We all know that a blue state is full of those folks who are thugs.
They never face punishment.


51 posted on 04/12/2026 8:09:43 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Well, I liked the island Manhattan. Smoke on your pipe and put that in.

But not anymore. Sigh.


52 posted on 04/12/2026 8:47:38 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: dennisw

New Jersey. Another “wrong place at the wrong time.” Don’t worry. Ditzy blonde Mikey, the Navy Rotorhead will fix it.


53 posted on 04/12/2026 8:50:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegally "born in the U.S." doesn't make you an American. It makes you a thieving ANCHOR BABY. )
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To: dennisw

No, this will help bring together people.


54 posted on 04/12/2026 8:59:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Them...avoid Them.


55 posted on 04/12/2026 9:06:28 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: usafa92
Union Township as recently as the 1980s was a nice little typical New Jersey town. It is terrible today, unrecognizable from when I was a kid.
You can substitute hundreds of USA towns, small to large, and write the same thing.

Working Whites & Hispanics have been moving away from Democrats for decades, so they flooded the nation with destitute undesirables, a lot of them violent; with said violence encouraged and protected by those same Democrats.

56 posted on 04/12/2026 9:25:06 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: sushiman

I frequent get flamed here for pointing out white areas are the best areas and I don’t want imported or brown trash invading white areas. It is not hate, just fact based on observation and statistics. We are so “racist” every brown turd wants to move next door to us. Go figure.


57 posted on 04/12/2026 10:29:31 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

Not only live near me...they also want to sit beside me in church...oh the horror.


58 posted on 04/12/2026 11:22:08 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Eleutheria5
Ronald McDonald, however, is still dancing around with the Hamburgler.

I heard Ronald is out to fry the Burger King.

JokerRonald

"Flame-broil this smiley boy."

59 posted on 04/12/2026 11:40:19 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Visualize whirled peas.)
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To: MikelTackNailer
While you boys are duking it out, I'll pick up your market share.


60 posted on 04/12/2026 11:50:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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